The Fascist Playbook Continues

As reported this morning in Politico, Trump is planning to keep his own security detail instead of turning everything over to the Secret Service.

Not only is this a breach of protocol, it's going to make things more difficult for the Secret Service to actively protect him, which may sound like a good idea to a lot of people, but it may have the opposite effect.  I can see a plausible scenario where Trump declares coordination will be "too difficult" and he will increase the size and scope of his private detail, in essence creating his own paramilitary group.  From there it's not much of a stretch to see the "need" to expand the group to other areas: security squads permanently encamped in cities and communities deemed dangerous or in need of observation.  New York, Detroit, Chicago, San Francisco...any place that the case can be made to "clean up."  His detail is already forcibly roughing up protesters at the rallies on his "Thank You" tour, so it's not a stretch to start increasing the ranks.  After all, white, uneducated, low-skilled workers need jobs, and cracking skulls doesn't require a lot of education.  But it does do well with blind loyalty.

I'm not suggesting that this IS going to happen, but I am seeing more of the signs that it may well happen.  After all, it is Chapter 2 of the Fascist Playbook.